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Summary: Sequel to All That I Have Left. Malik has always been a fighter. He has been fighting since he was five years old, after the murder of his mother. Conflicts between rebel groups have alerted the fire generals to their location. Now, a real war will begin as demons and humans clash on the battle field. MalikxMarikxMariku (Plagueshipping)
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Malik
Marik
(Mariku)
Chapter 12 – To The Mountain
Malik POV
Last night, I slept soundly for the first time in a week. They held me tightly. When I woke up in the morning, I still felt the care that they gave me last night. I woke up feeling stronger in the morning too. I was awake for a while before I felt Marik stirring in front of me. He opened his eyes to see that I was awake.
"Are you feeling better this morning?"
"Yes. I want to go and train today. I need to get back into practice."
Mariku had woken up at this point.
"Are you sure you feel up to that, Malik?"
"I won't train hard. I want to be ready to fight when we leave to go to the mountain."
Mariku nodded into my shoulder.
"You're going to do it anyway. Even if I tell you no. Marik will train with you. I need to meet with the other generals. We will be leaving in three days. It will take a day to travel to the mountain. But before you train, you need to eat."
I nodded and sat up. Marik went over to the corner of the tent with food. He rifled through the bags, until he found some meat and some fruit. He sat them down in front of me and I ate slowly. Marik left the bed to change his clothes. I kept my eyes on the bed.
I was hoping you would want to watch Malik.
I chuckled. You both are handsome, but I'm not about to watch you change.
Mariku laughed for the corner of the tent.
"He's a tough one, Marik. You're going to have to wear him down, if you want his attention."
"You may not get it even then." I said as I continued to eat.
I felt something grab my shoulders and they shoved me down onto the bed. I felt weight fall on top of me. I looked up to see Marik sitting on my chest.
"If I want your attention, I will have it." He leaned down and kissed me hard. He continued kissing me until I needed to pull away to breathe. I panted looking up at him. He smiled at Mariku who was watching us. His eyes were glowing red.
"See, I have his attention now."
Mariku laughed. "Yes you do. Now let him finish eating. He is right. He needs to train. I will see you both at lunch."
Mariku walked out of the tent. Marik smiled and leaned down to whisper close to my ear.
"We could just continue to stay here you know."
(Marik.)
Alright, Alright. Let's go train Malik.
I smiled at them talking. I got up and walked to the side of the room where I knew I had a change of clothes. I pulled off my shirt forgetting that Marik was in the room. He was staring at me with glowing eyes.
"Stop staring or leave the tent."
"Aww come on Malik."
"Just leave."
He got up to leave. "I'll meet you outside. That human and demon would like to see you today."
"Okay. I'll be outside in a minute."
I finished changing and found my knives and boots close to where my change of clothes was. I put on my knives and my boots. I walked out of the tent to see Jou and Seth standing near him.
"Malik!" Jou ran forward to greet me.
"Hey." I hugged him.
"I'm glad to see that you are feeling better."
"Me too."
"So you are going to train today? Do you want to train with me? We need to talk."
I nodded. "I know we do and I would like to train with you."
Jou grabbed my arm and pulled me to a clearing without any demons around. Seth and Marik followed us though.
"Are they friends?" I whispered to Jou.
"No, but since you are now bound to them, he felt he needed to play nice. You are the leader of the Easterns now."
"I can't be leader. Now that I am tied to them. What are we supposed to do, work together with demons?"
Jou looked over at Seth. "We already do, Malik. There is something darker stirring in this world. We need all the help we can get. The other soldiers are looking to Seth for guidance, even though he is a demon."
I looked down. "It's different at the palace. The humans there… they are treated like animals."
Jou pulled out his sword. "Maybe you can change that. Show them that humans are tough. You're going to be with those two generals all the time now, according to Seth. You are going to continue to fight."
"That might be harder than you think." I unsheathed my knives.
"All you can do is try." He jumped toward me and raised his sword.
I blocked the blow with my left knife. Jou wasn't holding back. My arm wobbled slightly. I twisted and jabbed with my right knife. He moved back out of the way and slashed his sword at my stomach. He missed when I jumped back. I landed and my right ankle shook. After a while, it was easier to fight. We continued fighting this way for thirty minutes until I was sweating and shaking. Jou was about to slash at me again, but I was shaking so badly I couldn't move.
"Jou stop!"
"Malik!"
Arms grabbed my waist and pulled me back. I hung limply from Marik's arm around my waist. Seth had grabbed Jou's arm, who was looking at me in shock. I was panting, my knives dropped to the ground.
"Malik, I'm so sorry. Are you okay?"
Marik spoke for me. "He's fine. He pushed himself too hard and was too stubborn to admit that he had. I'm going to take him back to lay down. We will see you at dinner."
"Okay," Jou said uncertainly, "See you then Malik. I'm sorry."
"It's fine Jou. I'm just not that tough at the moment." I panted.
Marik picked me up and he took me back to our tent. Once there, he laid me down on the bed and then went a crossed the tent to get a glass of water. He gave that to me slowly. I was glad I was at least able to hold my head up.
"I think that I want to nap for a bit." I said yawning. "Do think I will be able to fight again by the time we reach the mountain?"
"I think you will. At least with Marik and I at your side."
"Why are you both okay with me fighting?"
"We know that this is a part of you. We couldn't take that away."
"Good. Glad to know you're not interested in changing me."
"Not in that way. Get some rest. We try to train again later."
I nodded and curled up into the pillow.
The next two days passed quickly. I trained every day. It wasn't until the day before we were planning to leave that I felt even close to my original speed while fighting. I felt stronger too. The tents were all packed and loaded. I was standing next to my horse waiting to leave. My knives were tied to the saddle. I turned to watch Mariku and Marik talking to two white haired demons. Mariku told me that their names were Bakura and Akefia. They had lost their bonded human when I had died almost twenty years ago. I had also been told to never approach them without my demons with me.
I smiled. My demons. I had been calling them that lately in my thoughts. They kiss me every night before bed and oddly enough, I have begun to enjoy those moments. I have begun to enjoy the feeling of trusting others. It was still hard at times when I think about my family. But if I remain focused on what I needed to do, it wouldn't hurt as much in the moment.
"Are you ready to go, Malik?"
Marik was standing behind me.
"Huh, yeah. I'm ready to go."
"Up you get." Marik grabbed me around the waist and lifted me onto the horse. Mariku had already gotten on one next to mine.
"I guess I was spacing out." Marik got on the horse behind me. "Don't you have your own horse."
"I do, but it will be more fun to ride with you."
"Your just worried that I would fall off. How long is the ride?"
"A day. We will attack in the early morning." Mariku said.
I nodded. "Sounds like fun."
We began to ride out. The ride was peaceful and the environment was stunning. Ishizu would have loved seeing this. We never traveled out this far before. Jou and Seto had returned to our group of rebels earlier this morning.
"I will return to the rebels and we will meet you at the mountain tomorrow for the raid. You will be in command then." Seto had told me.
I didn't want to be in charge but he left right after telling me. I also wondered what the humans of the Eastern rebels would think about working with Imperial Demons. Things needed to change between the relationships of humans and demons. Humans needed to be treated fairly. It didn't make sense that the King and Queen could be so nice to their human but can't help any humans within their city.
(We know that too. They want to change their city, but they need something to happen to that they could put the change into effect.)
You heard me? Could the rebels helping to bring down a demon that the palace had been searching for be that change?
It very well could. And you were thinking too loud.
Well then we need to make a good impression.
My demons chuckled.
Not only did I need to lead the rebels in this battle, I needed to prove that humans were just as strong as demons. We weren't as strong physically but we were stronger mentally. We had a stronger will to live than demons did. That made us do crazy things because we will do whatever we need to do, to survive. And I wanted to survive.
"How much longer is the ride? I'm ready to kill Siegfried."
"Another six hours. We will not be stopping to eat, so if you are hungry, just say something."Marik grumbled into my ear.
"I'm not hungry yet."
"Just say something when you are." Mariku said.
We rode in silence for several hours before the sun began to set. We were going to camp at the base of the mountain. The fortress was located on the side. There were several tunnels within the mountain that led to the fortress. We made it to the clearing we were going to camp in an hour later. We weren't alone. In the clearing was fifty or so humans with a blond woman in front of the group that I recognized.
"Mai."
"Hello, Malik. We have something to discuss."
The next update is April 8th
